National Book Critics Circle Award1988

Given by National Book Critics Circle

Other Names: John Leonard Award, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
23 Works 24,346 Books 293 Reviews 4.2
The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating show more with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Winner 4

WorkCategoryYear
Oscar Wilde by Richard EllmannBiography/Autobiography1988
The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati MukherjeeFiction1988
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63 by Taylor BranchGeneral Nonfiction1988
The One Day by Donald HallPoetry1988

Finalist 23

WorkCategoryYear
Oscar Wilde by Richard EllmannBiography/Autobiography1988
The Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1981 by Kenneth BurkeBiography/Autobiography1988
The Letters of T. S. Eliot; Volume 1: 1898-1922 by T. S. EliotBiography/Autobiography1988
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul MonetteBiography/Autobiography1988
Three scientists and their gods by Robert WrightBiography/Autobiography1988
The Death of Rhythm and Blues by Nelson GeorgeCriticism1988
Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language by John HollanderCriticism1988
Poetry And The World by Robert PinskyCriticism1988
Law and Literature by Richard A. PosnerCriticism1988
The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati MukherjeeFiction1988
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories by Raymond CarverFiction1988
Libra by Don DeLilloFiction1988
Paris Trout by Pete DexterFiction1988
Wheat that Springeth Green (New York Review Books Classics) by J. F. PowersFiction1988
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63 by Taylor BranchGeneral Nonfiction1988
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 by Eric FonerGeneral Nonfiction1988
Europeans by Jane KramerGeneral Nonfiction1988
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPhersonGeneral Nonfiction1988
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil SheehanGeneral Nonfiction1988
The One Day by Donald HallPoetry1988
Harp Lake by John HollanderPoetry1988
One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays by Kenneth KochPoetry1988
New and Collected Poems by Richard WilburPoetry1988

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The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Website

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(English, Member-written)
The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Website

Winners
(English, Member-written)

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